Friday, 20 November 2015

Gove Calls for the Police

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To many people’s surprise, expectations of prison reform over the next five years are currently sky high. It’s not just Justice Secretary M...
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Thursday, 5 November 2015

Dear George

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Spending Review 2015 and Prisons As you will know from the  Party Conference, David has made prison reform one of the key domestic pri...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Residential Assessment

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When I stepped down as a member of the Youth Justice Board in 2006, I published a paper suggesting a wide programme reforms that would impr...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Brave New World or False Dawn? The Tory Agenda on Prison Reform

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I haven’t checked but I’d guess that prison policy has seldom made it into a Prime Minister’s Tory party conference speech. On the face of ...
Sunday, 4 October 2015

Jailed for Watching Daytime TV: the Need for Prison Reform in Africa

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In a recent report on over incarceration and overcrowding, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights has argued that that custodial sentences s...
Monday, 28 September 2015

Defining Decency Down

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There were wry smiles among staff at the headquarters of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) last week. Apparently bailiffs tu...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

PS from America

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The final leg of my Justice Reinvestment (JR) study tour took me to North Carolina where the Department of Public Safety provided a valuabl...